Kenneth Goldsmith

New Yorkers, be on the lookout for the results of tonight’s Rent Guidelines Board meeting. Tonight, they decide whether to freeze rents for the thousands of tenants living in rent-stabilized apartments. [Capital]

Across the pond, Nicholas Penny has announced his retirement as director of the National Gallery of Art in London. [ArtsBeat]

After years of budget cuts, inner-city schools are slowly reintroducing art, music, and gym classes. The reason? These subjects encourage students to stay in school. [NPR]

What a great find: Feminist novelist Kathy Acker interviewed the Spice Girls in 1997. Marxism, racism, and anger ensues. [Venus Radio via @longreads]

If Kim Kardashian’s entire life sounds like a video game to you, you’re on the right track; she just released an app where you can learn how to be a paparazzi queen. [The Daily Beast]

Julia Halperin surveys performance art collectors and finds that performance still remains one area of the art market where art-as-an-investment has yet to kick in. [The Art Newspaper]

Art Basel closed yesterday. Most of the work was sold long before Sunday, though, mainly in the first few days. [Art Slant]

Well, this defies common sense. In an effort to clean up the J, M, and Z train lines, the MTA has decided to remove all but one trash can from the Brooklyn stations. Get ready for some summertime grossness! [The Brooklyn Paper]

Artist Marie Lorenz is rowing around Randall’s Island in a rowboat for Frieze projects. She will be a “punctuation mark” within the fair, making it more of a “cultural adventure,” according to Amanda Sharp. [Wall Street Journal]

Actually, this boat ride may be an adventure. The Wall Street Journal neglects to mention that Lorenz’s first Frieze boat sank in the middle of the East River, and her rider had to swim to Randall’s Island. Another sank back in 2009, which resulted in a show at Jack Hanley. Passengers beware. [City Room]

Art critic Ben Davis is back at Artnet after the magazine folded and relaunched as Artnet News! His first column is about the crisis in art and comes with a giant picture of his head. He says money is drowning out thought, and art is bad. [Artnet]

A new documentary about Llyn Foulkes is showing at Film Forum through next Tuesday, but we’re not sure how much more we could learn about the man beyond what’s in the trailer. He was forgotten for a while, he makes weird shit, and he’s obsessive. “He’s actually making the most ambitious paintings at age 73,” though, says one voiceover. [Film Forum]

The New York Public Library is abandoning their terrible renovation plan that would turn part of their flagship fifth avenue and 42nd street location into a circulating library. Three factors contributed to this decision: A study showing that the renovation costs would exceed the original estimate of 300 million, a change in city government, and input from the public. Woo hoo! [The New York Times]

“The scale of conspiratorial thinking in Russia is now comparable to that of the US after 9/11.” E-flux journal’s May issue takes on Russia. [e-flux]

Following “tepid” sales at Christie’s Impressionist and Modern auction on Tuesday night, Sotheby’s Imp-Mod sale failed to sell a whopping third of their lots. Okay, Sotheby’s just cannot keep up with Christie’s tepid pace. [Reuters]

$$$! Creative Time raised $1.3 million at their annual fundraiser gala. It was held in the Domino Sugar Factory, which currently houses Kara Walker’s Creative Time project, but will eventually be turned into condos. [Art in America]

On last week’s Monday Night Raw, the Irish wrestler Sheamus kicks the hiccups out of an unsuspecting nerd. Why do we care? There’s a Rothko painting in the background. From what we can tell, this Rothko tends to show up in WWE spots from time to time. [YouTube]

Oh, Detroit. You went bankrupt, and now, some people think you might be saved by selling off the Detroit Institute of Art’s reportedly $1 billion collection. We’ve got stories detailing how Christie’s staff has landed like vultures, ready to begin evaluating the Detroit Institute of Art’s reportedly $1 billion collection. Then, we’ve got critics wrestling over whether it’s okay to sell off the collection. We sure are stuck on this hypothetical; nobody has okay’ed this idea in the first place. [Bloomberg, Hyperallergic]

With all its oil riches, Qatar is buying itself power in the art market. [The New York Times]

Within hours of its release, Google Chromecast, a $35 dongle, sold out on Google’s Play store. It’s a dongle that allows you to stream any web content to a TV by using a mobile device as a remote. [Forbes]

Rhizome announced the winners of their 2013 Commissions. Money for art—yay! [Rhizome]

Kenneth Goldsmith talks about the value being a dumb artist at The Awl and The Colbert Report. [The Awl, Complex via The Colbert Report]

The art world is often extravagant. Opening dinners overflow with a cornucopia of earthly delights while paint, temporary walls, and tools get frittered away in the dumpsters outside. Resources like these get squandered all the time, and rarely does anyone raise an eyebrow. It’s surprising, then, to hear about the current trash-related protest against MoMA Poet Laureate and UbuWeb Founder Kenneth Goldsmith for his relatively small, but big-sounding paper-based project “Printing Out the Internet”.

Forget in Ten Parts is a ten-part weekly series by AFC's Curatorial Fellow, Guy Forget, focusing on the aesthetics of impermanence. This week Guy presents two text based works and talks a little about disposable content.